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De Witt (also: De Wit, De Witte and De With) is the name of an old Dutch patrician and regenten family. Originally from Dordrecht, the genealogy of the family begins with Jan de Witte, a patrician who lived around 1295. [1] [2] The family have played an important role during the Dutch Golden Age.
Caricature of Kuyper by Albert Hahn, from a 1904 edition of the satirical magazine De Ware Jacob. In the 1901 elections, Kuyper was re-elected in Sliedrecht, defeating the liberal De Klerk. In Amsterdam he was defeated again, now by the freethinking liberal Nolting.
Amsterdam (/ ˈ æ m s t ər d æ m /) is a city in Montgomery County, New York, United States.As of the 2020 census, the city had a population of 18,219. The city is named after Amsterdam in the Netherlands.
Wolfert Gerritse Van Couwenhoven (1 May 1579 – 1662), [1] also known as Wolphert Gerretse van Kouwenhoven and Wolphert Gerretsen, was an original patentee, director of bouweries (farms), and founder of the New Netherland colony.
Captain Olof Stevense Van Cortlandt, who was born in Wijk bij Duurstede, Netherlands, arrived in New Amsterdam in 1637. He was originally a soldier and bookkeeper who rose to high colonial ranks in service of the Dutch West India Company, serving many terms as burgomaster and alderman. [1]
Johan de Witt (24 September 1625 – 20 August 1672) was a Dutch statesman who was a major political figure during the First Stadtholderless Period, when flourishing global trade in a period of rapid European colonial expansion made the Dutch a leading trading and seafaring power in Europe, commonly referred to as the Dutch Golden Age.
Jacob Leisler (c. 1640 – May 16, 1691) was a German-born politician and colonial administrator in the Province of New York. He gained wealth in New Amsterdam (later New York City ) in the North American fur trade and tobacco business.
Moses Elects Seventy Elders is a painting by Jacob de Wit, completed in December 1737 and commissioned for the interior of the City Hall in Amsterdam. It shows Moses electing seventy elders (Numbers 11:16-17, 24–25) and is now in the Royal Palace of Amsterdam. It is one of thirteen paintings by the artist on Hebrew Bible themes.